How to use the regular expression functions provided by the ‘re’ library to match, search, and replace text in your Python programs.

A proposal under consideration by Python’s development team would finally bring pattern matching statements to the language.

A long time ago, I wrote a utility for an employer that allowed testers to perform verification on data coming out of a hardware box using a regular expression language. It allowed users to ...

If you work with text, you owe it to yourself to learn regular expressions, and Patterns can help you do that--as well as figure out exactly what your search patterns are capturing.